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On behalf of everyone at DVDActive.com, we welcome you to the new look site! Whether you’re a long-time reader or a new visi...

Hello, and welcome to DVDActive! We hope you like the new-look website. It’s taken many hours of hard work and dedication, but we think the end result is worth it! Whether you’re a long-time reader or a new visitor we hope you’ll enjoy our colourful new layout, featuring enhanced drop-down menu browsing, higher resolution images, improved user forums and many behind-the-scenes tweaks. We’ll be bringing even more features online over the coming months, as we strive to make DVDActive the number one source for DVD-related news, reviews and feature articles!

Your first port of call should be the ‘Setting’ pages (found in the ‘Home’ menu option). From here you can log-in to the website (or create an account if necessary) and edit preferences such as your signature, profile and display options. For a limited time existing users may change their username if desired (under ‘Login Details’). However, this can only be done once so choose wisely! Some of the future improvements we will be making are member profiles and the ability to email other forum users directly (we know from feedback that this is something many of you want). These will link into your ‘Profile’ page, so please take the time to fill it in if possible. You may even want to participate in our survey!

We’ve done everything we can to ensure the transition from DVDAnswers to DVDActive is a smooth as possible, but as is often the case there may be teething problems and we ask that you bear with us. Firstly, you’ll notice that only more recent content has been enhanced with larger images. It simply wasn’t practical to edit years’ worth of news and reviews, but as the weeks progress you’ll notice that new content will be enhanced wherever possible. If you spot anything that you believe requires the attention of an administrator, please feel free to contact one of the editorial team. As always, we appreciate your feedback. In order to get the best from the new features you might like to consider upgrading your web browser to the latest version (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera). Enjoy the website!

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Yeah, we get asked totally random questions on a daily basis, even though their were disclaimers asking people not to do it. I had people asking me to contact companies on their behalf to sort out disputes, or to ask about specific titles. It got silly, especially with all the 'how do I copy DVDs?' questions.

We did a survey a while back when designing the site and you'd be surpised by how many people still use 800x600. I work in IT and a hell of a lot of people just don't know that they can have higher resolutions, and some prefer to have 'bigger' text even if they do know.

You would think that news is about the same in all countries, but it's not. In the US most studios have assets sites that you can get artwork/news from. In the UK there are very few of these. Most labels/studios use several different PR companies, which is a bit of a nightmare. You have to keep track of who works where, what you've dealt within the past, who to ask for what assets... Tom has it easy

The news section isn't out of date. Basically the home page now features all kinds of content to give everything a fair go at being seen. The specific pages only include news/review items (or whatever).

Thanks for the comments Chris. I love the new look, except for the merging of non-US news but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Chris wrote: Firstly, part of the reason for the name change is to (hopefully) stop people emailing us to ask us random questions all the time. Because we were called DVDAnswers people thought that we enjoyed being asked how to illegally copy DVDs and hack X DVD player. Plus it allegedly sounds more 'magazine' like. LOL that's so funny, that people would take the site name so literally :D

Chris wrote: but we were trying to accommodate people still using the 800x600 resolution Do people still use that out dated resolution? Surely not. I thought most were on 1024x768 and gradually moving up. I'm on 1280x1024 the max my monitor will take. It only took an hour or so to get used to the smaller icons etc . . . The sharpness alone one me over.

I couldn't go below 1024x768 ever (unless playing games of course). IMO the site should be designed for 1024x768 and those where it doesn't look right should realise it's time to change/upgrade. I can only think of one reason that being a 14" or lower monitor where you'd need less than 1024x768 but surely no one is still using those?

Chris wrote: Because most of our traffic is region one based, and frankly because news is far easier to obtain from American sources than it is from the UK and the rest of the world I'm really surprised to hear it's harder to source from the UK than it is US news. I'd have thought it was about the same.

Personally I mainly visit this site for non-US or UK news as it was the best on the net to provide it in English. I'll still do this, it's just it will make it much harder to read now. The thing is before the news went back weeks if not days now it only goes back about a day before you have to look at page 2.

p.s - The News section looks to be out of date compared to the main page, no? It seems to have less non-US news on it.

Firstly, part of the reason for the name change is to (hopefully) stop people emailing us to ask us random questions all the time. Because we were called DVDAnswers people thought that we enjoyed being asked how to illegally copy DVDs and hack X DVD player. Plus it allegedly sounds more 'magazine' like.

The default colour scheme was blue for the whole site up until a couple of weeks ago. it was changed because it was thought that people would find it difficult to see what section they were in. The colour coding makes that much easier. Also, the news page isn't exactly the same as the home page. The home page has links to news, reviews, articles and more. The news page is, well, just news.

The '1970' thing has been mentioned numerous times in this thread. We're aware of it, please stop pointing it out

Because most of our traffic is region one based, and frankly because news is far easier to obtain from American sources than it is from the UK and the rest of the world, we decided to merge the UK and World sections into one. The World section is still predominantly UK R2 (by a considerable margin), but we were trying to accommodate people still using the 800x600 resolution, which is why we can't have any more columns without it looking very messy. It's also why there is all that 'wasted' blue space to the sides. A lot of sites adopt this approach, and we felt it was a good compromise.

To those who don't like it, it's a pity. However, it seems that the overwhelming response is positive, and we all think it's an improvement. The back-end of the site has also undergone a major overhaul which makes our lives easier when bringing the content to you in the first place.

Approach I really dislike. As if one continent has more appeal than the rest of the entire world.

Why has the UK R2, R3 and R4 news been merged? It just means all the news for those regions are now a mess, sorry but they are. I wasn't aware DVD Answers/Active had considerably more R1 news than anywhere else?!?

Why the name change?

Yah, I agree. I may live in R1, but I love looking at the other regions and I agree it may become a mess and a little difficult. And there appears to be a lot of room on the left and right where there are just blue bars. But, hey, you just opened. We all know you've got stuff to improve...just hope this is one of those things!

As for the color schemes, I like it. I find it interesting you go to the home page and everything is blue, and then you go to the news page which is exactly the same and its green. LOL. Are you planning on adding more news? Nevertheless, however, I love the new site and color schemes. Keep up the good work!

F**king horrible. I used to prefer your site over DVDTimes.com because you got R1, R2 UK and rest of the world separeted nicely, but now you have only R1 and rest of world and yuckie new look. Pff, do I now need to search new dvd-news-site? Damn. You just lost one reader.

Approach I really dislike. As if one continent has more appeal than the rest of the entire world.

Why has the UK R2, R3 and R4 news been merged? It just means all the news for those regions are now a mess, sorry but they are. I wasn't aware DVD Answers/Active had considerably more R1 news than anywhere else?!?

Yeah, I wasn't aware of the Safari/Camino problem until I had someone check it earlier. Looks like I'll have to switch from submit buttons to actual button buttons. Internet Explorer / Opera / Firefox don't behave the same when trying to apply hacks to remove the text from submit buttons (hence I just stopped using value).

Yep, we know about the Safari problem. We'll try and find a solution to that as soon as possible. As for the signature options - I'll have to check with Malcolm about that. If the feature is visible, it should work - unless it slipped through the net somehow! Thanks for the feedback though.

In Safari (latest version, latest OS X update) and Camino (latest nightly, OS X) all of the form buttons are blank (like the two buttons below where I'm typing this message, as well as the submit button for the Search box at the bottom of the page).

I'm guessing it's because you're using background-images in the CSS; since both browsers use native OS widgest for forms, they don't support background-images.

Also, is the pref to turn off signatures in posts hooked up yet? In my profile, I have it set to not show people's signatures (sorry everybody), but I'm seeing them anyway.

I like the changes to the RSS feed (i.e. having the region and country in the title) and that you mention Opera above. Still not keen on the new name, but I'll get over it. Now to guess which of the two blank buttons below is supposed to be Submit...

Wow! Much better than DVDAnswers (which was wonderful)!!! I hope that you'll make a secion of DVD boxsets where you can see the boxset open and from different angles, and even rank the best boxsets out there.

Looking good. One of the things that is a definite improvement is putting the name of the month in the timestamp of each post. Previously you used the UK all-digit date format (dd/mm/yyyy) which I'm sure confused some of my fellow Americans.

Yeah, there are a few little problems like that We'll sort them out in the coming days though don't worry! Also, we'll be giving UK stuff just as much coverage as before, so you don't need to worry about that. It might not be quite as easy to navigate through it now, but we had to make a choice on what to display. We thought this was the best way to keep everything in given that we've lost an extra column from Answers.